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[[preprinted]] FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Letter from Bossanger announcing the sending of nodules of christals from [[gandam?]] - complaining of Mr Swaim's interference
Letter from Mr Swaim - will send apparatus 
Called on the Public Printer will let us have use of plates to strike off copies for Institution.
Cannot give Mrs. Connors daughter a place
Call from General Van Antwerp [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] and General McAlester.
Call from Dr. Johnson of this city relative to meeting room of the Medical Association of the city. Will allow them to meet once a month
The Surgeon General has been informed then he can have the use of Fords Theatre for the medical museum. This will probably be taken and hence the proposition to use the Smithsonian for the medical museum [[strikethrough]] has been [[/strikethrough]] ^must be abandoned.
Mr H Bradford called this evening to discuss the circulation of the air from the equator to the pole and open polar ice.
The problem by no means so simple as he imagined The rotation of the earth affect the results
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[[preprinted]] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1865. [[/preprinted]]
Dr. Gibbs called to speak in regard to the printing of the manuscript on the Nootka Sound Indians or the Tahkaht Indians - the very important paper of which the manuscript is now in our possession The author the Rev. C. Knipe is about to return from his mission to England is now in New York therefore it is important that the work be presented 
Mr. Gibbs declines the preparation of an article on Ethnology for the Navy Depart. Suggests Bartlet and Whitney.
Re[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] from the Capital the Report for 1864 in part